Re: patch to put IDE drives in sleep-mode after an halt

2001-05-24 Thread idalton
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:16:44PM +, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > On 24 May 01 at 14:59, peter k. wrote: > > > > auto-parking), and since all drives are voice coil drives, then they > > > should auto-park. But i've had problems with some hard drives that were > > > spinned down (when Win was

Re: 2.2.19 locks up on SMP

2001-04-28 Thread idalton
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:16:04AM +0200, bert hubert wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 02:21:29PM -0700, Ion Badulescu wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > > > Over the last week I've tried to upgrade a 4-CPU Xeon box to 2.2.19, but > > the it keeps locking up whenever the disks are stresses a bit, e.g. when

Re: Kernel hang on multi-threaded X process crash

2001-04-22 Thread idalton
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 08:23:39PM -0700, Manuel McLure wrote: > > On 2001.04.22 20:17 Manuel McLure wrote: > > > > To follow up on my followup, I can now reproduce this 100% and get the > > "Trying to vfree()..." message on the console. To do this I start > > Mozilla, > > switch to a text conso

Re: Sources of entropy - /dev/random problem for network servers

2001-04-09 Thread idalton
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 01:04:47PM +0200, Heusden, Folkert van wrote: > >> However, only 3 drivers in drivers/net actually set > >> SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM when calling request_irq(). I believe > >> all of them should. > > No, because an attacker can potentially control input and make it > > non-random.

PROBLEM: OOPS report for L2 cacheable size setting at 512MB on TD5TH dual P200

2001-04-05 Thread idalton
[1.] One line summary of the problem: OOPS report for L2 cacheable size setting at 512MB on TD5TH dual P200 [2.] Full description of the problem/report: My system board BIOS has two settings for L2 cacheable size: 64MB and 512MB. Previous kernels would lock when initialising the framebuffer. Th

Issue with console on non-sequential BIOS serial port

2001-03-30 Thread idalton
There appears to be a device naming inconsistancy with the BIOS-handled serial ports. I'm not enough of a C coder to narrow it down, but in terms of observed behaviour, it appears that there is a hard-coded mapping between the four BIOS serial ports and four device nodes (ttyS0[0-3]), which does

Re: 2.4.3: still experiencing APIC-related hangs

2001-03-30 Thread idalton
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:32:24PM +0200, Frank de Lange wrote: > Hi'all, > > Subject says it all: 2.4.3 (unpatchaed) is still causing the dreaded > APIC-related hangs on SMP BX systems (Abit BP-6, maybe Gigabyte). I still need > to apply one of Maciej's patches to get rid of these hangs. The sou

Re: paride error, aparantly with VFS

2001-03-26 Thread idalton
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:10:11PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 09:37:38PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > do_pd_read_drq: status = 0x10050 = SEEK READY TMO > > Please try a recent -ac kernel and let me know if the problem persists > or goes away. ac25 appears to have

bug report: paride with devfs

2001-03-26 Thread idalton
I found this one out while trying to back up an old win95 system ;) [1.] One line summary of the problem: paride and/or devfs bork up and OOPS [2.] Full description of the problem/report: When releasing and re-loading the 'pd' module, swapping drives on the parport box hardware, the devfs e

paride error, aparantly with VFS

2001-03-26 Thread idalton
I appear to have found a problem reading from paride hard disks under 2.4.2 Reading from the raw block devices seems to be fine. # dd if=/dev/pd/disc0/disc of=/dev/null works. However, accessing partitions on the device through VFS by mounting them hangs the machine. With vfat and msdos parti

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

2001-03-13 Thread idalton
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:25:13AM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote: > Well, I can't speak for the consequences of noapic (I've wondered as > much myself), but I know that there's been a problem with SMP 2.4 > kernels (even the 2.4 test kernels) and USB running on VIA chipsets for > a while now. I'm tol

Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts?

2001-02-27 Thread idalton
Hello all.. I'm interested in making a 16x32 console font, so I can run my 21" display at 100x37 text. I've asked on the framebuffer list already, but have heard no reply, and the list seems to be defunct. Since it's a fixed-frequency display, I want to have the framebuffer and basic font in-ke

Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

2001-02-01 Thread idalton
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:35:30PM -0600, List User wrote: > If it's any consolation from (this American) I'm glad it's 'disc' (always > thought that 'disk' was just for those marketing dweebs who couldn't spell > right > in the first place). And in terms of casual usage, I've nearly always used

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-29 Thread idalton
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:23:35PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:57:44PM -0800, Alan Olsen wrote: > > > > What is the recommended amount of swap with the 2.4.x kernels? > > AFAIK, swap requirements for applications running under a 2.4 kernel have not > changed sig

Re: Ethernet drivers: SiS 900, Netgear FA311

2001-01-21 Thread idalton
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:54:34PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 20 Jan, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Not true, see natsemi.c (in 2.4.x at least). > > Correct, and the cards really work with it. natsemi did not work with 2.2.17 on a remote system I do work on, but did work with the 2.4.0-in

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-18 Thread idalton
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 06:50:12AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [James Bottomley] > > The fundamental problem that we all agree on is that SCSI devices are > > detected in the order that the mid-layer hosts.c file calls their > > detect routines. > > That was yesterday. Today they are detecte

Re: How to Power off with ACPI/APM?

2001-01-05 Thread idalton
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 06:18:02PM +, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > Silly question, but have you realized that you don't have to enable > > SMP in kernel to do multithreading ? > > Lest anyone think me completely clueless, yes, I'm well aware of that. It's > just that I wanted to have tha

Re: usb + smp + apollo pro 133a + 2.4.0 = still broken

2001-01-05 Thread idalton
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:50:07PM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote: > just a heads up that usb in smp-enabled 2.4.0 kernels running on > machines with the via apollo pro 133a chipset is still broken. the last > word i heard was that it's a pci irq routing problem. smp and usb will > play together pret

Re: DHCP Problems with 3com 3c905C Tornado

2001-01-04 Thread idalton
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:31:39PM +0100, Christian Loth wrote: > Hello all, > > I recently installed a system with the 3c905C > NIC on RedHat 6.2. In our network, IP adresses > are granted via DHCP, although every host has > a fixed IP instead of a dynamic IP pool. The IP > is statically coupl

Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

2000-12-28 Thread idalton
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:26:06PM +0100, Manfred wrote: > David wrote: > > > > Same old story, bugger still does it. Have to set the link down/up to > > get it running again. > > > > 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev > > 20) > > > > I missed your earlier m

Re: Proposal: devfs names ending in %d or %u

2000-12-25 Thread idalton
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:02:39PM -0800, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > Eric Shattow wrote: > [snip] > > when i insert a FAT formatted disc with a PC partition table, the partition > > i want to mount is part1. when i insert a HFS formatted disc with a MAC > > partition table, the partition i want to